From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.
You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
